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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 300

Number of Answers: 67

Points Needed for Genius: 210

Genius requires between 30 and 58 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 300 was in the 93rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 26, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 67 possible answers rank it in the 97th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on October 26, 2025.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on October 29, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 219
  • loll 206
  • toot 200
  • naan 181
  • nana 181
  • lilt 147
  • till 147
  • tilt 147
  • tint 142
  • nene 141
  • mama 140
  • mamma 140
  • acacia 134
  • acai 134
  • onto 133
  • toon 133
  • onion 131
  • anal 124
  • anon 121
  • olio 120
  • dodo 119
  • tact 118
  • baba 116
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • lull 113
  • lulu 113
  • call 110
  • calla 110
  • mitt 110
  • cocci 109
  • mono 109
  • moon 109
  • ratatat 108
  • tart 108
  • tartar 108
  • tutu 108
  • attar 107
  • loon 107
  • allay 106
  • ally 106
  • tattoo 106
  • tatty 106
  • ammo 105
  • momma 105
  • epee 102
  • peep 102
  • meme 101


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 108,884 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,852 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.



Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • adland
  • alae
  • alameda
  • alan
  • aland
  • alane
  • alee
  • allee
  • allemande
  • allheal
  • alma
  • almah
  • alme
  • almeh
  • analemma
  • anele
  • aneled
  • daddle
  • daddled
  • daedal
  • daedalean
  • dahl
  • daledh
  • dedal
  • dele
  • delead
  • deleaded
  • deled
  • dhal
  • enamelled
  • hadal
  • haemal
  • halala
  • halalah
  • halalled
  • haled
  • hallah
  • hallal
  • hallalled
  • hallel
  • halm
  • halma
  • hamal
  • hammal
  • heddle
  • helled
  • hemal
  • ladened
  • lahal
  • lall
  • lallan
  • lalland
  • lalled
  • lamedh
  • lamella
  • lamellae
  • lammed
  • landman
  • landmen
  • leadened
  • leadman
  • leadmen
  • leal
  • leman
  • malled
  • mallee
  • malm
  • medalled
  • melaena
  • melamed
  • melena
  • mell
  • melled
  • nala
  • naled

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.

addle

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
  2. (provincial) To thrive or grow; to ripen.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
noun
  1. Liquid filth; mire.
  2. (provincial) Lees; dregs.
verb
  1. To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle
  2. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
adjective
  1. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
  2. (by extension) Unfruitful or confused; muddled.

addled

verb
  1. (provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
  2. (provincial) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
verb
  1. To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle
  2. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
adjective
  1. (of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
  2. Confused; mixed up.
  3. Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.

allele

noun
  1. One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.

anal

noun
  1. Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
  2. Anal sex.
adjective
  1. Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
  2. Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region.
  3. Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage.
  4. (of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

annal

noun
  1. The record of a single event or item.

anneal

noun
  1. An act of annealing.
verb
  1. To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
  2. To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
  3. To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
  4. To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
  5. To strengthen or harden.

annealed

verb
  1. To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
  2. To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
  3. To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
  4. To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
  5. To strengthen or harden.

dale

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

dandle

verb
  1. To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
  2. To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
  3. To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.

dandled

verb
  1. To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
  2. To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
  3. To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.

deal

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A division, a portion, a share.
  2. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An act of dealing or sharing out.
  2. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  3. A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction
  4. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  5. An agreement between parties; an arrangement
  6. A situation, occasion, or event.
  7. A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
verb
  1. To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  2. To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  3. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  4. To pitch.
  5. To have dealings or business.
  6. To conduct oneself, to behave.
  7. To take action; to act.
  8. To trade professionally (followed by in).
  9. To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  10. To be concerned with.
  11. To handle, to manage, to cope.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  2. A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  3. A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
adjective
  1. Made of deal.

dell

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A young woman; a wench.

elan

noun
  1. Ardor or zeal inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

eland

noun
  1. A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for its hide and flesh.

enamel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.
  2. A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish.
  3. The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.
  4. A cosmetic intended to give the appearance of a smooth and beautiful complexion.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To coat or decorate with enamel.
  2. To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.
  3. To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.
  4. To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

enameled

verb
  1. To coat or decorate with enamel.
  2. To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.
  3. To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.
  4. To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

halal

verb
  1. To make halal.
adjective
  1. Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
  2. (of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.
adverb
  1. In a halal manner; in accordance with Muslim religious customs.

hale

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Health, welfare.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly.

hall

noun
  1. A corridor; a hallway.
  2. A meeting room.
  3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
  4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
  5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  6. Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
  7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
  8. A living room.

handheld

noun
  1. A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands.
adjective
  1. Held in one or both hands.
  2. Small and light enough to be operated while held in one or both hands.

handle

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
  2. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool, or an opportunity or pretext.
  3. The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.
  4. The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience, and other qualities perceived by touch.
  5. A name, nickname or pseudonym.
  6. A title attached to one's name, such as Doctor or Colonel.
  7. A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
  8. A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and middy for other regional variations.)
  9. A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.)
  10. A point, an extremity of land.
  11. A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional balls.
  12. The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components in exactly one point.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
  2. To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
  3. To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
  4. To manage, control, or direct.
  5. To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
  6. To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
  7. To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
  8. To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
  9. To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
  10. To use the hands.
  11. To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.
  12. To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

handled

verb
  1. To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
  2. To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
  3. To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
  4. To manage, control, or direct.
  5. To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
  6. To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
  7. To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
  8. To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
  9. To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
  10. To use the hands.
  11. To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.
  12. To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).
adjective
  1. Having a specified number or kind of handles.

headland

noun
  1. Coastal land that juts into the sea.
  2. The unplowed boundary of a field.

heal

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
  2. Health
verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
verb
  1. To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
  2. (now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).

healed

verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
verb
  1. To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
  2. (now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).

heel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
  2. The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
  3. The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
  4. The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
  5. (usually in the plural) A woman's high-heeled shoe.
  6. The back, upper part of the stock.
  7. The last or lowest part of anything.
  8. A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
  9. The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
  10. A contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
  11. A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
  12. The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
  13. Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
  14. The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
  15. (specifically) The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
  16. (workman slang) A cyma reversa.
  17. The short side of an angled cut.
  18. The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
  19. The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the toe (upper end).
  20. In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
verb
  1. To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
  2. To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
  3. To kick with the heel.
  4. To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
  5. To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
  6. To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
  7. To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
verb
  1. To incline to one side; to tilt.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
verb
  1. To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
  2. (now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).

heeled

verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
verb
  1. To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
  2. To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
  3. To kick with the heel.
  4. To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
  5. To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
  6. To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
  7. To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
verb
  1. To incline to one side; to tilt.
adjective
  1. Having a heel (often of a specified type, as in high-heeled etc.).
  2. Prepared, especially armed with a weapon.
  3. Wealthy; having enough money.
verb
  1. To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
  2. (now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).

held

verb
  1. To grasp or grip.
  2. To contain or store.
  3. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
  4. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
  5. To win one's own service game.
  6. To take place, to occur.
  7. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
  8. To derive right or title.
  9. In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
  10. To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.

hell

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helm

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The steering apparatus of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel.
  2. (maritime) The member of the crew in charge of steering the boat.
  3. A position of leadership or control.
  4. One at the place of direction or control; a guide; a director.
  5. A helve.
verb
  1. To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat.
  2. (by extension) To lead (a project, etc.).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A helmet.
  2. A helmet.
  3. A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching.
  2. An individual plant stem.
  3. Part of a harness; a hame.

helmed

verb
  1. To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat.
  2. (by extension) To lead (a project, etc.).
adjective
  1. Wearing a helm.

lade

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A load.
verb
  1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
  2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
  3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
  4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
  5. To admit water by leakage.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The mouth of a river.
  2. A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
  3. Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

laded

verb
  1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
  2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
  3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
  4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
  5. To admit water by leakage.

laden

verb
  1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
  2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
  3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
  4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
  5. To admit water by leakage.
adjective
  1. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
  2. Heavy.
  3. Oppressed.
  4. In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.

ladle

noun
  1. A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
  2. A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
  3. The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
  4. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
  5. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
verb
  1. To pour or serve something with a ladle.

ladled

verb
  1. To pour or serve something with a ladle.

lama

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

lame

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A stupid or undesirable person.
verb
  1. To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
adjective
  1. Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
  2. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
  3. (by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
  4. Unconvincing or unbelievable.
  5. Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
  2. (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To shine.

lamed

verb
  1. To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
verb
  1. To shine.
noun
  1. The twelfth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

land

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
  2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
  3. A country or region.
  4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
  6. (often in combination) realm, domain.
  7. The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
  8. A shock or fright.
  9. A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  10. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  11. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
  12. The ground or floor.
  13. The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
  14. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
  15. A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
verb
  1. To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
  2. To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
  3. To come into rest.
  4. To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
  5. To bring to land.
  6. To acquire; to secure.
  7. To deliver.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to land.
  2. Residing or growing on land.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Lant; urine

landed

verb
  1. To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
  2. To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
  3. To come into rest.
  4. To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
  5. To bring to land.
  6. To acquire; to secure.
  7. To deliver.
adjective
  1. In possession of land.
  2. Consisting of land, especially with a single owner.

lane

noun
  1. (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
  2. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
  3. A narrow road, as in the country.
  4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
  5. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
  6. A course designated for ships or aircrafts.
  7. An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
  8. An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
  9. Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
  10. In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
  11. The homestretch.

lead

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
  2. A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
  3. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
  4. Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
  5. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
  6. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
  7. A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
  8. Bullets; ammunition.
verb
  1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead
  2. To place leads between the lines of.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
  2. Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
  3. An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
  4. The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
  5. The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
  6. The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
  7. The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
  8. A channel of open water in an ice field.
  9. A lode.
  10. The course of a rope from end to end.
  11. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
  12. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
  13. Charging lead.
  14. The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
  15. The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
  16. Hypothesis that has not been pursued
  17. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
  18. Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
  19. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
  20. The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
  21. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
  22. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
  23. The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
  24. In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
  25. The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
  26. A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
  27. The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
  28. The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
  29. The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
verb
  1. (heading) To guide or conduct.
  2. To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
  3. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
  4. To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
  5. To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
  6. To produce (with to).
  7. (transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).
adjective
  1. Foremost.
  2. Main, principal

leaded

verb
  1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead
  2. To place leads between the lines of.
adjective
  1. Held in place by strips of lead.
  2. Containing or treated with the element lead.
  3. Containing tetraethyllead.

leaden

verb
  1. To make or become dull or overcast.
adjective
  1. Made of lead.
  2. Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish.
  3. Dull; darkened with overcast.

lean

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
verb
  1. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
  2. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
  3. Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
  4. To hang outwards.
  5. To press against.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Meat with no fat on it.
  2. An organism that is lean in stature.
verb
  1. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
adjective
  1. (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
  2. (of meat) Having little fat.
  3. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
  4. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
  5. Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
  6. Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing"

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To conceal.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.

leaned

verb
  1. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
  2. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
  3. Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
  4. To hang outwards.
  5. To press against.
verb
  1. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
verb
  1. To conceal.

lede

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (singular) A man; person.
  2. (collective plural) Men; people, folk.
  3. (singular) A people or nation.
  4. (plural) Tenements; holdings; possessions.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (chiefly US) The introductory paragraph(s) of a newspaper or other news article.

lemma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
  2. The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.
  3. (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
  2. One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

lend

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The lumbar region; loin.
  2. (of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
  2. To make a loan.
  3. To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
  4. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
  5. To borrow.

llama

noun
  1. A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

male

noun
  1. One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
adjective
  1. Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
  2. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
  3. Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
  4. (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
  5. Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.

mall

noun
  1. A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
  2. An enclosed shopping centre.
  3. An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
  4. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
  5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
  6. The game of polo.
  7. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.
verb
  1. To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
  2. To build up with the development of shopping malls
  3. To shop at the mall

mammal

noun
  1. An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
  2. A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

mandala

noun
  1. A graphic depiction of the spiritual universe and its myriad realms and deities.
  2. Any ritualistic geometric design, symbolic of the Universe, used as an aid to meditation.
  3. A division or book of the Rigveda (of which there are 10).

manhandle

verb
  1. To move something heavy by force of men, without aid of levers, pulleys, machine, or tackles.
  2. To assault or beat up a person.
  3. To mishandle; to handle roughly; to mangle.
  4. To control (a machine, vehicle, situation, etc.) by means of physical strength.

manhandled

verb
  1. To move something heavy by force of men, without aid of levers, pulleys, machine, or tackles.
  2. To assault or beat up a person.
  3. To mishandle; to handle roughly; to mangle.
  4. To control (a machine, vehicle, situation, etc.) by means of physical strength.

meal

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
  2. Food served or eaten as a repast.
  3. A time or an occasion.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.
verb
  1. To yield or be plentiful in meal.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A speck or spot.
  2. A part; a fragment; a portion.
verb
  1. To defile or taint.

medal

noun
  1. A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
  2. A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.
verb
  1. To win a medal.
  2. To award a medal to.

medaled

verb
  1. To win a medal.
  2. To award a medal to.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to one who has received a medal.

meddle

verb
  1. To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.
  2. To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
  3. To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
  4. To have sex.

meddled

verb
  1. To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.
  2. To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
  3. To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
  4. To have sex.

meld

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To combine multiple similar objects into one

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A combination of cards which is melded.
verb
  1. In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.

melded

verb
  1. To combine multiple similar objects into one
verb
  1. In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.

melee

noun
  1. A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
  2. A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.
  3. Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.
  4. Lively contention or debate, skirmish.
  5. A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.
  6. Small cut and polished gemstones sold in lots.
verb
  1. To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.

needle

noun
  1. A fine, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, etc.
  2. Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
  3. A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle.
  4. A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
  5. A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
  6. A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
  7. (usually preceded by the) The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
  8. A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
verb
  1. To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
  2. To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
  3. To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.

needled

verb
  1. To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
  2. To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
  3. To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
adjective
  1. Covered or armored with needles.